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Designed for advanced academic reviews, this framework guides the development of a unifying 'spine' that transcends simple literature summaries. It forces the writer to impose a novel organizational logic—such as a typology, process model, or integrating construct—thereby achieving genuine theory advancement and defining the field's future research agenda. Use this when the draft reads like a disconnected list of papers.

This guide teaches the unique, high-level writing style required for scholarly reviews, particularly in management science. It moves beyond simple description to crafting an authoritative, integrative, and agenda-setting argument. Learn how to structure a problem-first opening, articulate a clear critical position, and provide a future research roadmap, transforming a mere summary into a scholarly contribution.

This guide helps position academic manuscripts for a broad, four-field anthropological audience (sociocultural, archaeology, biological, linguistic). It teaches how to move beyond simple literature reviews by engaging the live scholarly conversation, challenging the dominant canon, and connecting disparate subfields to demonstrate a clear, theoretical contribution.

This guide helps researchers structure their discussion section and manuscript to explicitly articulate the theoretical contribution, moving beyond simple results reporting. It teaches how to identify, claim, and frame various types of theoretical advancements (e.g., new mechanisms, boundaries, or integrating literatures), ensuring the paper meets the high standards of top-tier academic journals like AMJ.

Provides a structured guide for positioning academic manuscripts within ongoing theoretical debates. It teaches authors how to move beyond simple 'gap-spotting' by identifying tensions, challenging assumptions (problematization), or testing boundaries between established theories. Essential for improving the theoretical rigor and argumentation of submissions to top-tier management journals.

A guide for structuring academic arguments, ensuring your research paper actively engages with and advances a specific theoretical conversation. It teaches authors how to move beyond simple literature summaries by explicitly identifying a core theoretical stream, pinpointing its limitations (the challenge), and proposing new theoretical mechanisms (the extension). Essential for high-impact scholarly writing in management and social sciences.

This guide provides a rigorous, step-by-step framework for developing robust academic theories, particularly for prestigious journals like the Academy of Management Review (AMR). It shifts the focus from simple assertions to a structured argument by requiring explicit definition of constructs (including domain and scope), stating underlying assumptions, specifying relationship forms (e.g., mediating, causal), articulating the mechanism (the 'why'), and formulating falsifiable, numbered propositions. Mastering this process ensures the theory is comprehensive and academically sound.

This guide helps authors determine if their work meets the high standard required by the Annual Review of Environment and Resources (AREAR). It focuses on synthesizing diverse environmental fields (climate, water, biodiversity, energy) into a field-defining, authoritative review, rather than presenting primary data or a simple literature summary. Use this when proposing or checking the scope for an invited, synthesizing review.

This guide helps researchers determine if an interesting phenomenon or trend constitutes a genuine theoretical puzzle suitable for the Academy of Management Review (AMR). It guides users to distinguish between a simple topic, an empirical test, and a deep theoretical contradiction that requires building new knowledge-based claims.

This guide outlines a systematic methodology for conducting comprehensive literature reviews in economics. It moves beyond simple summarizing by teaching researchers how to build an evidence matrix, ensuring systematic coverage by sweeping databases (JEL codes, keywords, working papers). It is essential for preparing high-impact academic reviews that must prove exhaustive coverage and synthesize complex, often conflicting, findings.

This skill guide teaches the specialized rhetorical and structural requirements for writing comprehensive academic reviews, particularly for high-impact fields like Sociology. It ensures the prose is authoritative, highly accessible to non-specialists, logically signposted, and culminates in a concrete, forward-looking research agenda, moving beyond simple summary.

A structural guide for authors writing for top-tier organizational theory journals, such as ASQ. It teaches how to elevate the literature review from a simple annotated list to an explicit, argumentative entry that names a specific scholarly conversation, identifies a theoretical tension, and sharply defines the paper's unique contribution. This is crucial for passing peer review.